Just send multicast packets over Wi-Fi and every Wi-Fi network in range will suddenly become unusable. I accidentally did that using VLC as a streaming server! It took a few occurrences at different times to finally click on the coincidence.
I still have no idea why that happens. I have a blurry memory that says that the AP drops to "b" mode for multicast, but no reason was given.
I wanted one when I read the price and the Oculus label, but after researching a bit more it looks like I can't have one. I needs a Galaxy thingy to stick in it (just like with Cardboard, but Samsung-only), and I am not willing to give Samsung any money. I'm with LG now and I'm very happy. My second choice of brand is HTC. Samsung is somewhere near the bottom due to quality concerns (they're cutting corners(tm) and such).
You can only have so much fun and learn so much before it gets boring and you need to move up a level (level up?). The next level might be less fun if you have to continue making the boards yourself.
Building a computer one resistor at a time is fun, unless you have to do it over and over again.
I was about to ask how come the spark wasn't stopped in its tracks by the optocouplers in the RJ45-to-board junctions. Then I read TFA (I know, right?!) and saw the pictures.
I don't know what the voltage was, but to maintain a spark over a 5cm air gap I guess it was pretty high. That means optocouplers can't help if you can just jump over them. 5cm could easily cover a small switch, unless once it reaches another RJ45 it can jump another 5cm (i.e. it can cover as much distance as it pleases), in which case it can fry the switch and jump and fry all the connected devices, and other switches and their devices, until the voltage drops enough to be unable to do these jumps anymore.
That leaves this exercise for the reader: how much damage would a Tesla coil plugged into a switch in a datacenter do?:) Sure, it might look suspicious when you pull your truck next to the Ethernet port, but just imagine.
Oh... "accessory to infringement" is a term that comes to mind... No idea if it's a real legal term, but I'm sure it's not just in my head, but in the heads of the copyright holders' lawyers' heads too. If only they could get a law passed to that effect...
Has anybody suggested any kind of solution to these DDoS attacks that the structure of the Internet allows? Current approach seems to accept DDoS as a fact of life and moan when it happens, with the only solution to the problem being to wait it out. When the Internet can gang up on pretty much any other participant (even Google, given enough bots) somebody should at least fire a few shots in the dark in an attempt to find solutions, but I haven't encountered anything on this yet.
If proven to be used for enforced obsolescence I'm sure they're in for a bankrupting class action. You break my stuff, you pay me to buy a new one, plus moral damages for the pain you've caused me, regardless of how you did it.
Yet nobody seems to have proven even the existence of "warranty fuses" (ones that make your equipment break just after warranty expires)...
I'm not talking about SilkRoad and MurderMeForCash or whatever, but for real world legal sites. Dread Pirate Roberts would never apply for an SSL ('cause that would be stupid) but legit sites that would like to serve the extremely paranoid too, would. The security of the connection is not the main purpose of that cert (Tor already takes care of that), but the confirmation of the identity of the site. fakebootrandomletters.onion would be unable to validate their identity as Facebook, so I don't get phished to hell if I stumble there for some reason.
Having the host of the.onion be verified in the real world, while keeping their users anonymous is a good thing. You really don't need to know _where_ in the world I am or what my IP address is when I come to your website. You might even be able to track my persona as usual, and serve me "relevant" ads as usual, but with no clue as to who I am or where I come from (unless I tell you), and that's fine too, while I can regenerate my persona (erase cookies and the like) at any point and start over.
What about Terry Wrist? You should get better at infiltration. Thinking everybody might be Terry Wrist and tapping them accordingly is just lazy, and the real Terry Wrist might still get away because you didn't look in the right place.
It reminds me of "shaky chair" collaboration I had to put up with at one point... It involves a guy shaking my chair because I was wearing headphones while I was focusing on some algorithm. He used to do this several times a day for "quick questions", and at one point I wanted to just pull a machete out and stick it into him. Management said I had to help this guy and also focus on my task. Management were ex-bankers and claimed they did this all the time in their youth (getting interrupted frequently while working on a task that required a lot of focus, that is). I think my idea of focus and their idea of focus are two different things.
I just bought an approx $50 (199 RON) quad core, dual-SIM, KitKat Android phone in Romania. This one is called Myria_Quad, but similar phones, with 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of storage, 480x800 pixels, can be found on Amazon, eBay, and from traditional vendors (I got mine in brick&mortar retail). I'm sure these are already popular in Africa at this price point (if you have that kind of money), so targeting them with $88 phone sounds a bit clueless. That $88 price point is what you charge westerners for the same thing (phones similar to the one I got go for 50-80 GBP in the UK ~ $80-125).
Can those neutrino oscillations be modulated at will so as to transfer data? Just imagine being the guy with the neutrino path through the Earth's crust beating all those other HFT guys to the femtosecond.
Isn't that etiquette based on the fact that, in the past, the tables were so unstable that they'd topple over if you put your elbows (and thus some of your upper body weight) on them?
How exactly would you take my comment seriously? A bridge is useless unless both its ends are connected. My scenario might work for roads (like, say, interstates), but I can't see how it would ever work for bridges unless you fly over the unfinished bits.
The other way to look at it is from a job creation project, sunken cost, perspective.
Viewpoint 1: If China got tired of building ghost cities, they can use that workforce on this bridge. Viewpoint 2: If governments don't care about recouping their investment, then the only factor to consider is if it's cheaper to use that bridge than the options that exist right now, and if it would benefit the economies around the bridge and/or of the world to have that bridge in place and if maintenance and running costs are covered.
The message could actually be this: "Hey guys, we're forcing you to wear suits because... err... how should we put this... because you'll need them in a short while, when you go job hunting anyway. We're doing you a favour, while not telling you that we're about to start layoffs. You're welcome."
Isn't it a point of phishing that you don't tell the impersonated entity that you're using their identity to scam other people? Even when you run a mock test, isn't it better to not tell anybody you're doing it, to avoid any false negatives (people that would have clicked, but won't now, because they know it's not their Nigerian friend, but the government impersonating him) and/or false positives (people that wouldn't click, but will now, to fuck with the government).
Thalys should know how to respond when phished people call their call centres, regardless of who phished them. They shouldn't need to be told by the phishers that they'll start receiving phone calls about unknown emails. That's what happens in real life!
But then... how did these guys get the real number for Thalys anyway? Did the testers forget to put their own number in, so they can take the credit card details in order to "cancel" the booking? Even a link with "click here to cancel" that went to "thalys.be.your.phishing.tickets.here.geocities.com" would have probably worked just as well.
I wonder how they'll even know I make copies for personal use. Privacy means they can't enforce that one unless I do something else that warrants them barging into my house and searching my things. And I would argue that I have a licence to the stuff _on_ the disc, not the disc itself.
I'd get a lawyer to argue that the copy is not a copy, but actually the original, since it's the content that I bought, and the "copy" is the content I bought, not something else, and see where it goes. I would argue that copying _my_ CD is akin to downloading MP3 tracks from Amazon, with the difference that the storage is in my CD drive rather than Amazon's. And I can keep as many copies of the Amazon MP3s as I like, as long as I don't give them to other people.
Speaking of cloudy MP3s: how does this affect autorip services from Apple and Amazon? Or do they have special terms that allow them to do that? Can I get my autoripped MP3s down legally then? Or are they illegal copies when I do that? (this might be answerable by reading the Ts&Cs of each service)
And if it's "fair compensation" they want, I'd argue that the "fair compensation" for private copies is "zero pounds and zero pence". I'd like to hear the counter-argument to that.
If they do win such an argument, I'd go to the other extreme: How much do they want if I play the CD through a splitter into multiple rooms? What if I stream it privately to my car? For removal of all doubt: it never hits another disc in the process. It's CD to speakers all the way (with digital encoding/decoding in order to transport the sound to my car, but that's just another "wire" in my opinion). That's depriving them of revenue too, isn't it?
What if the wire is like in BOFH: so long that the lag in it can be used to turn it into storage?:)
Someone was walking down a lane in their datacentre and noticed some lights blinking in the corner of their eye. They turn, and see a machine they remembered. They then said: "Hmm... I thought I turned this one off ages ago." And pushed the power button.
They don't have jurisdiction and they don't need jurisdiction. They just play consultant to the Romanian authorities, who apply local law. Sure, the FBI prods the authorities to apply that law, but it's the authorities that do that, not the FBI. Also, this might be a "collect call consulting" type of affair, where the FBI pays the Romanian government a fee to be allowed to consult and "help out" in the investigations.
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Just send multicast packets over Wi-Fi and every Wi-Fi network in range will suddenly become unusable. I accidentally did that using VLC as a streaming server! It took a few occurrences at different times to finally click on the coincidence.
I still have no idea why that happens. I have a blurry memory that says that the AP drops to "b" mode for multicast, but no reason was given.
I wanted one when I read the price and the Oculus label, but after researching a bit more it looks like I can't have one. I needs a Galaxy thingy to stick in it (just like with Cardboard, but Samsung-only), and I am not willing to give Samsung any money. I'm with LG now and I'm very happy. My second choice of brand is HTC. Samsung is somewhere near the bottom due to quality concerns (they're cutting corners(tm) and such).
You can only have so much fun and learn so much before it gets boring and you need to move up a level (level up?). The next level might be less fun if you have to continue making the boards yourself.
Building a computer one resistor at a time is fun, unless you have to do it over and over again.
I was about to ask how come the spark wasn't stopped in its tracks by the optocouplers in the RJ45-to-board junctions. Then I read TFA (I know, right?!) and saw the pictures.
I don't know what the voltage was, but to maintain a spark over a 5cm air gap I guess it was pretty high. That means optocouplers can't help if you can just jump over them. 5cm could easily cover a small switch, unless once it reaches another RJ45 it can jump another 5cm (i.e. it can cover as much distance as it pleases), in which case it can fry the switch and jump and fry all the connected devices, and other switches and their devices, until the voltage drops enough to be unable to do these jumps anymore.
That leaves this exercise for the reader: how much damage would a Tesla coil plugged into a switch in a datacenter do? :) Sure, it might look suspicious when you pull your truck next to the Ethernet port, but just imagine.
Oh... "accessory to infringement" is a term that comes to mind... No idea if it's a real legal term, but I'm sure it's not just in my head, but in the heads of the copyright holders' lawyers' heads too. If only they could get a law passed to that effect...
Has anybody suggested any kind of solution to these DDoS attacks that the structure of the Internet allows? Current approach seems to accept DDoS as a fact of life and moan when it happens, with the only solution to the problem being to wait it out. When the Internet can gang up on pretty much any other participant (even Google, given enough bots) somebody should at least fire a few shots in the dark in an attempt to find solutions, but I haven't encountered anything on this yet.
If proven to be used for enforced obsolescence I'm sure they're in for a bankrupting class action. You break my stuff, you pay me to buy a new one, plus moral damages for the pain you've caused me, regardless of how you did it.
Yet nobody seems to have proven even the existence of "warranty fuses" (ones that make your equipment break just after warranty expires)...
I'm not talking about SilkRoad and MurderMeForCash or whatever, but for real world legal sites. Dread Pirate Roberts would never apply for an SSL ('cause that would be stupid) but legit sites that would like to serve the extremely paranoid too, would. The security of the connection is not the main purpose of that cert (Tor already takes care of that), but the confirmation of the identity of the site. fakebootrandomletters.onion would be unable to validate their identity as Facebook, so I don't get phished to hell if I stumble there for some reason.
Nothing spells "success" like 6S. Others might say that spells "sucks ass", but to each their own.
Having the host of the .onion be verified in the real world, while keeping their users anonymous is a good thing. You really don't need to know _where_ in the world I am or what my IP address is when I come to your website. You might even be able to track my persona as usual, and serve me "relevant" ads as usual, but with no clue as to who I am or where I come from (unless I tell you), and that's fine too, while I can regenerate my persona (erase cookies and the like) at any point and start over.
What about Terry Wrist? You should get better at infiltration. Thinking everybody might be Terry Wrist and tapping them accordingly is just lazy, and the real Terry Wrist might still get away because you didn't look in the right place.
It reminds me of "shaky chair" collaboration I had to put up with at one point... It involves a guy shaking my chair because I was wearing headphones while I was focusing on some algorithm. He used to do this several times a day for "quick questions", and at one point I wanted to just pull a machete out and stick it into him. Management said I had to help this guy and also focus on my task. Management were ex-bankers and claimed they did this all the time in their youth (getting interrupted frequently while working on a task that required a lot of focus, that is). I think my idea of focus and their idea of focus are two different things.
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I just bought an approx $50 (199 RON) quad core, dual-SIM, KitKat Android phone in Romania. This one is called Myria_Quad, but similar phones, with 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of storage, 480x800 pixels, can be found on Amazon, eBay, and from traditional vendors (I got mine in brick&mortar retail). I'm sure these are already popular in Africa at this price point (if you have that kind of money), so targeting them with $88 phone sounds a bit clueless. That $88 price point is what you charge westerners for the same thing (phones similar to the one I got go for 50-80 GBP in the UK ~ $80-125).
Now print a Quran on that filter paper and see what happens when people want clean water from their holy book and rip a leaf off.
Can those neutrino oscillations be modulated at will so as to transfer data? Just imagine being the guy with the neutrino path through the Earth's crust beating all those other HFT guys to the femtosecond.
Isn't that etiquette based on the fact that, in the past, the tables were so unstable that they'd topple over if you put your elbows (and thus some of your upper body weight) on them?
Apparently there are other sources for this etiquette, plus a few others.
How exactly would you take my comment seriously? A bridge is useless unless both its ends are connected. My scenario might work for roads (like, say, interstates), but I can't see how it would ever work for bridges unless you fly over the unfinished bits.
The other way to look at it is from a job creation project, sunken cost, perspective.
Viewpoint 1: If China got tired of building ghost cities, they can use that workforce on this bridge.
Viewpoint 2: If governments don't care about recouping their investment, then the only factor to consider is if it's cheaper to use that bridge than the options that exist right now, and if it would benefit the economies around the bridge and/or of the world to have that bridge in place and if maintenance and running costs are covered.
To recoup their investment as early as possible they'll allow traffic on sections of the bridge as soon as each is ready.
The message could actually be this: "Hey guys, we're forcing you to wear suits because... err... how should we put this... because you'll need them in a short while, when you go job hunting anyway. We're doing you a favour, while not telling you that we're about to start layoffs. You're welcome."
Isn't it a point of phishing that you don't tell the impersonated entity that you're using their identity to scam other people? Even when you run a mock test, isn't it better to not tell anybody you're doing it, to avoid any false negatives (people that would have clicked, but won't now, because they know it's not their Nigerian friend, but the government impersonating him) and/or false positives (people that wouldn't click, but will now, to fuck with the government).
Thalys should know how to respond when phished people call their call centres, regardless of who phished them. They shouldn't need to be told by the phishers that they'll start receiving phone calls about unknown emails. That's what happens in real life!
But then... how did these guys get the real number for Thalys anyway? Did the testers forget to put their own number in, so they can take the credit card details in order to "cancel" the booking? Even a link with "click here to cancel" that went to "thalys.be.your.phishing.tickets.here.geocities.com" would have probably worked just as well.
To get the NSA, CIA, XXX and others on this, all one has to do is say the magic words: This is how the Islamic State, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda are funded.
OK, now that it's not longer just fraud, but terrorism, maybe somebody will go single payer on these guys.
I wonder how they'll even know I make copies for personal use. Privacy means they can't enforce that one unless I do something else that warrants them barging into my house and searching my things. And I would argue that I have a licence to the stuff _on_ the disc, not the disc itself.
I'd get a lawyer to argue that the copy is not a copy, but actually the original, since it's the content that I bought, and the "copy" is the content I bought, not something else, and see where it goes. I would argue that copying _my_ CD is akin to downloading MP3 tracks from Amazon, with the difference that the storage is in my CD drive rather than Amazon's. And I can keep as many copies of the Amazon MP3s as I like, as long as I don't give them to other people.
Speaking of cloudy MP3s: how does this affect autorip services from Apple and Amazon? Or do they have special terms that allow them to do that? Can I get my autoripped MP3s down legally then? Or are they illegal copies when I do that? (this might be answerable by reading the Ts&Cs of each service)
And if it's "fair compensation" they want, I'd argue that the "fair compensation" for private copies is "zero pounds and zero pence". I'd like to hear the counter-argument to that.
If they do win such an argument, I'd go to the other extreme: How much do they want if I play the CD through a splitter into multiple rooms? What if I stream it privately to my car? For removal of all doubt: it never hits another disc in the process. It's CD to speakers all the way (with digital encoding/decoding in order to transport the sound to my car, but that's just another "wire" in my opinion). That's depriving them of revenue too, isn't it?
What if the wire is like in BOFH: so long that the lag in it can be used to turn it into storage? :)
Just pointing out how crazy this can get.
Someone was walking down a lane in their datacentre and noticed some lights blinking in the corner of their eye. They turn, and see a machine they remembered. They then said: "Hmm... I thought I turned this one off ages ago." And pushed the power button.
They don't have jurisdiction and they don't need jurisdiction. They just play consultant to the Romanian authorities, who apply local law. Sure, the FBI prods the authorities to apply that law, but it's the authorities that do that, not the FBI. Also, this might be a "collect call consulting" type of affair, where the FBI pays the Romanian government a fee to be allowed to consult and "help out" in the investigations.